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Day 1 Our group shared a leisurely breakfast at the hotel while we awaited our guide and team to begin the day. A large vehicle arrived filled with our gear (tents, sleeping mats, food, portable toilet) and all of the members of our team: 3 guides, 24 porters and 1 cook. We arrived at Machame Gate with an altitude of 1800 meters. While awaiting for our team to arrange for our park permit, we relaxed in an open verandah while observing monkeys fly off branches, preen their young and steal banana peels. We enjoyed a delicious lunch of onion soup and spaghetti. The process of park registration is an involved one. Each porter can carry no more than 20 kilograms. Bags are weighed and contents adjusted accordingly. It was determined that we needed three additional porters, and one of our guides was tasked with the difficult job of selecting them of the large group of hopefuls who had waited since the early morning to be granted the highly coveted work of a porter. While we were the last group to begin the hike, we enjoyed an impromptu yoga class led by Mitra, and a trail all to ourselves. We spent five hours walking slowly, step by step, deep in conversation with one another, through the rainforest filled with trees hanging thick with moss, dense thickets of fern, and all manner of trees. Occasionally we heard the bay of monkeys nearby. We reached Machame Camp at 2835 meters shortly after nightfall-- over 1000 meters of ascent in 5 hours. The camp has roughly 220 hikers and over 400 porters today. Our team had already set up our tents and prepared dinner. We gathered together in the mess hall, and warmed up with a hot beverage and a fish, vegetable and pototo dinner. Two of our 6
guides then came in to discuss the next day's plans, and to notate our heart rate and oxygen saturation, and our fluid intake. Everyone is feeling well, and excited about our first day's hike deep in the rainforest of Kilimanjaro. We head to Shira Camp in the morning. Now it is time for sleep. 7
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guides then came in to discuss the next day's<br />
plans, and to notate our heart rate and oxygen<br />
saturation, and our fluid intake. Everyone is<br />
feeling well, and excited about our first day's<br />
hike deep in the rainforest of Kilimanjaro.<br />
We head to Shira Camp in the morning. Now it<br />
is time for sleep.<br />
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